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llison White was 13 years old when she learned that her sister had been murdered more than a decade earlier.
Nov. 12, 1975, the bloodied body of Cheryl White was discovered on the floor by her roommate's bed in a Warner Robins apartment. Her throat was slit and she had been stabbed 15 times.
News accounts in The Telegraph archives tell of a young woman in search of independence but who apparently fell in with the wrong crowd. A junior at Warner Robins High, Cheryl dropped out of school and moved in with a girlfriend at the long-since demolished Parkway Apartments off Wellborn Road.
Two weeks before her death, Cheryl lost her part-time job at Piggly Wiggly in Zayre Plaza. Her landlord tried to evict her the day before she was killed because she was a minor. Her friend who had leased the apartment had moved out and her new roommate, who was 18, had not signed the lease agreement.
Cheryl's father had pleaded with her to come home, and she agreed. But Cheryl wanted to pack her things first.
The night before she was to return home, the 16-year-old girl climbed into her roommate's bed about 10:30 because hers was covered with packed boxes and suitcases.
She was killed 2 hours later.
According to news accounts at the time, Mary Jane Stewart Staples, then 18, came home late that November night and found her young roommate bleeding profusely, but still alive.
Instead of calling authorities, she left her dying roommate and went to a motel lounge with her estranged husband, Hugh Staples, who picked her up from the apartment.
She didn't tell anyone about the stabbing until neighbors found her at a local restaurant and told her to come home. Several parties were going on in the apartment complex where Cheryl's body was found.
Before police were called, there had been a steady flow of people in and out of the bedroom. The girl's body had been moved and someone had put a pillow under her head.
Police found her lying on her back, wearing a bathrobe, T-shirt and underwear. She had not been sexually assaulted. More than 60 footprints had been tracked through the blood.
Mary Jane Stewart Staples, later convicted of perjury, initially told police detectives she picked up a knife near Cheryl's body and dumped it in the trash because she thought it belonged to her estranged husband.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/13265368.htm
Nov. 12, 1975, the bloodied body of Cheryl White was discovered on the floor by her roommate's bed in a Warner Robins apartment. Her throat was slit and she had been stabbed 15 times.
News accounts in The Telegraph archives tell of a young woman in search of independence but who apparently fell in with the wrong crowd. A junior at Warner Robins High, Cheryl dropped out of school and moved in with a girlfriend at the long-since demolished Parkway Apartments off Wellborn Road.
Two weeks before her death, Cheryl lost her part-time job at Piggly Wiggly in Zayre Plaza. Her landlord tried to evict her the day before she was killed because she was a minor. Her friend who had leased the apartment had moved out and her new roommate, who was 18, had not signed the lease agreement.
Cheryl's father had pleaded with her to come home, and she agreed. But Cheryl wanted to pack her things first.
The night before she was to return home, the 16-year-old girl climbed into her roommate's bed about 10:30 because hers was covered with packed boxes and suitcases.
She was killed 2 hours later.
According to news accounts at the time, Mary Jane Stewart Staples, then 18, came home late that November night and found her young roommate bleeding profusely, but still alive.
Instead of calling authorities, she left her dying roommate and went to a motel lounge with her estranged husband, Hugh Staples, who picked her up from the apartment.
She didn't tell anyone about the stabbing until neighbors found her at a local restaurant and told her to come home. Several parties were going on in the apartment complex where Cheryl's body was found.
Before police were called, there had been a steady flow of people in and out of the bedroom. The girl's body had been moved and someone had put a pillow under her head.
Police found her lying on her back, wearing a bathrobe, T-shirt and underwear. She had not been sexually assaulted. More than 60 footprints had been tracked through the blood.
Mary Jane Stewart Staples, later convicted of perjury, initially told police detectives she picked up a knife near Cheryl's body and dumped it in the trash because she thought it belonged to her estranged husband.
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/13265368.htm